ADL

Tobias Müller via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 3 10:38:50 PDT 2016


Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 9/3/16 7:08 PM, Tobias M wrote:
>> On Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 16:33:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I see. This is a matter orthogonal to DbI - introspection should be
>>> able to figure out whether a member can be found, or a nonmember if
>>> the design asks for it. I wouldn't like "tricking" DbI into thinking a
>>> member is there when there isn't. -- Andrei
>> 
>> The problem I see with DbI is rather that the user of a function thinks
>> that an optional constraint is satisfied, while in reality it isn't, due
>> to a non-obvious lookup/visibility problem.
> 
> At some point there's a need to RTFM. -- Andrei

Is there one for DbI? (Sincere question)



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